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Re:Chat Is Going to Eat the World on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:51PM (#46829702)

Absolutely ridiculous claim. Clicking a button and filling out a few fields is almost always simpler and quicker than typing what you want using natural language. That's not to mention the fact that the overwhelming majority of the population can't coherently order McDonald's at a drive thru, let alone clearly describe what they want to shop for to an LLM. This reads like someone coping with the failure of generative AI.

The AI bubble has nothing to do with AI

Posted by AIFairy on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:41PM
from the self-post dept.

The endless chatter about an "AI bubble" bursting focuses on whether ChatGPT subscriptions or enterprise API calls will ever generate enough revenue to justify the trillions in hype. But that's missing the point entirely. Even if every frontier lab, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind, suddenly had zero paying customers tomorrow, the financial machinery driving the so called "AI revolution"...

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Generative AI failed to replace SaaS

Posted by AIFairy on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:24PM
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Satya Nadella & others preached about GenAI replacing the "Business Logic" or the "Middle Tier" layer of various SaaS services. The idea was that users would interact with a GenAI model (via a chat interface), and then the model would interact directly with a database. This would have obviously mooted the need for almost all SaaS applications.What's been happening instead is that GenAI has...

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